Letter: Too much power given to our judges
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: The Lord Chief Justice supports the incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights with UK domestic law. This is not surprising.
After such incorporation, UK judges will be empowered to uphold government suppression of such 'rights' as freedom of speech or of association on the ground that the suppression is 'necessary in a democratic society'. No such explicit power has ever in our history been entrusted to the judiciary.
Yours truly,
JOHN GRIFFITH
Marlow, Buckinghamshire
3 March
The writer is Emeritus professor of public law in the University of London.
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